Re: HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

Hi fakeoutdoorsman

I saw your reply at post #1263 above.
Today when I tried to update ffmpeg from version SVN-r24802 I had the same config error libmp3lame >=3.98 not found.

I went back to the beginning of the thread and installed lame-ffmpeg v3.98.4 following step 5.
This has definitely installed lame-ffmpeg in Synaptic, but I still got the config error.
I don't really understand what good this has done.

Re: HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

Originally Posted by ron999

Please will you explain about step 5.

I needed to add LAME compilation because a recent FFmpeg revision requires a LAME that is newer than what is available in the repository. Note that I have not tested anything on Karmic yet, but I doubt it would be much different. I'm not sure why it did not work for you, but I'll fire up the Karmic VM and try it there too.

I'd be careful using stuff from debian-multimedia. Just keep in mind that you have packages from there if things go wrong.

Originally Posted by mc4man

Even though /usr/local usually trumps /usr. in this case make sure the you've uninstalled the previous libmp3lame-dev package

For Lucid, I made sure that I left the previous libmp3lame-dev from the repository to see if it would interfere with the installation, but it did not seem to, so I didn't add any note to remove it although it's probably a good idea. I'll add that to the guide.

Re: HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

I seemed to install the qt-faststart fine, but I get an error when I try to run it:

sh: qt-faststart: not found

I'm sure it is simple issue, but I don't know what to do about it. Is the installation instructions assuming we know how to make qt-faststart executable from any directory? Or does it assume I am in a particular directory? How do I get it to know where to find it?

Re: HOWTO: Install and use the latest FFmpeg and x264

Originally Posted by spacechampion

I seemed to install the qt-faststart fine, but I get an error when I try to run it:

sh: qt-faststart: not found

I'm sure it is simple issue, but I don't know what to do about it. Is the installation instructions assuming we know how to make qt-faststart executable from any directory? Or does it assume I am in a particular directory? How do I get it to know where to find it?

Are you using Ubuntu? If yes, what version are you using? I would expect to see bash, not sh. qt-faststart should be executable from any directory if it installed correctly.